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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

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A car crash will affect an obsese 250lb bus driver much more than some 40lb little twerp.

Let's say the bus was traveling at a rate of 60mph๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ and hit a brick wall, and all passengers uniformly come to a complete stop at precisely 1 second. The 5 year old weighing 40lbs๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ would experience an impact of around 109 pounds of force (109.40 lbf๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ) whereas the bus driver weighing 250lbs๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ would experience 683.67 lbf๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.

I absolutely did NOT run the calculations in ๐Ÿคฎ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿคฎ before converting to ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ˜Ž.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I mean, on the other hand, a 5 year old is generally more fragile than an adult man.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude, fully grown men are objectively fragile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Children are objectively small and squishy. Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death for children for a reason.

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